There's No Way I'm a Charm Demon, I'm the Dominant One

[Bonus side stories underway, if-route bad ending warning] A clueless-about-romance, seemingly powerful and beloved top x a split-personality, fragmented Main God bottom Shen Lang, the chosen one of the Reincarnation Game, steamrolled his way through instance after instance and ascended to Rank A in just three years. Everyone thought he would be the next to break the game. But when he entered the domain of S-rank players, he realized he had only just reached the edge of the abyss. Without exception, S-rank players were monsters teetering on the brink of madness. An immortal, undying angel of flesh; a wily sage who toyed with people's hearts; a slaughter tyrant who worshipped strength above all… When these monsters turned their attention to Shen Lang… “So cute. I want to eat him.” Instance 1: An old manor and a funeral variation featuring a father and his two nonhuman sons “Have you ever seen a sword technique that descends from the heavens?” Instance 2: A wasteland battle royale turns into a live dating show. Isn't something off about that? “Fire the cannons to celebrate the birth of a king.” Intermission: Back to Earth ten years ago, where his father is in prison, his mother is gravely ill, and he is broken “If only one of us can go on, it has to be you.” Instance 3: A space purge unfolds aboard an alien spaceship with no way home “Anyway, we've already died plenty of times.” Instance 4: A Chinese-style cosmic horror cultivation world “So what if it's the will of Heaven? I'll cut Heaven down!” Instance 5: An endless train and the end of the world “Let's go see what the god who caused all this really looks like.” … Content warnings: 1. A universally adored top, with everyone doting on him. 2. A powerful, combat-oriented top. The author likes hurt/comfort, so he's often battered and bruised. 3. A domineering male lead from a power fantasy novel has somehow ended up on a romance-fiction site, and keeps hopping back and forth between the two. 4. My take on cosmic horror creatures, plus nonhumans abound. Upcoming story: The Life of a Cannon Fodder Is Still a Life [Quick Transmigration] After a certain batshit-crazy couple wrecks his original world, the innocent (not really) cannon fodder Zhong Su is punished by the Space-Time Bureau and assigned full-time to play a vicious cannon fodder in various little worlds and reach bad endings. But why do the protagonist tops and bottoms go crazy after this guy dies? World One: [The CEO's Contractual Cannon-Fodder Wife] You're the contract wife brought in to take the fall while the CEO is riding high. You scheme and plot to break him up with his true love, the beloved first love, but only end up bringing them closer. After you're thrown out and left destitute, the CEO's beloved first love actually tracks you down at your rented apartment and offers to keep you. Meanwhile, your ex-husband, who once treated you like dirt, keeps inexplicably turning up by the roadside stall where you work, watching you. World Two: [The Vicious Ex in a Post-Apocalyptic Reality Show] You're the vicious ex who cruelly shoved the overpowered male lead into the line of fire as zombies surrounded the city. When the reality show ends, the whole internet condemns you and you become public enemy number one. Your overpowered ex-husband has become the new king, and teams up with the kind-hearted bottom who transmigrated into a book to take revenge on you. But when you're dragged before the tribunal, the new king, who hates you to the core, leans close and whispers in your ear, “Smile at me like you used to, just once, and I'll let you go. How about it?” And the transmigrated bottom argues passionately before a global audience: “I'll take responsibility for all his crimes. If you have to punish someone, punish me too!” World Three: [The S-Rank Guide Reduced to a Test Subject] You're the White Tower's most brilliant S-rank Guide. But after a quick-transmigrator arrives, your former best friend, partner, lover, and even your own younger brother join forces to undermine you, leaving you as a shared Guide for low-ranking Sentinels. As your mental sea is on the verge of shattering and you're about to become a cripple, the cold and distant Chief Sentinel, covered in blood, holds you in his arms. “Don't die… You can't die without my permission!” In the corner, the quick-transmigrator, who should have been basking in success, frantically demands of the System, “How did the story turn out like this? Get him back, now!!” World Four: [The Ghost King’s Beloved, Used as a Pawn] You're an ordinary office worker, mistaken by the Ghost King for his lover from a past life. To lure the Ghost King out, the exorcist bottom pretends to get close to you, taking advantage of your trust and dependence. But while entangled with the Ghost King, he unexpectedly falls in love with him. You, the pawn, were supposed to quietly exit the stage. Yet after the plan is complete, the exorcist kneels in a pool of blood, eyes wide with anguish. “This isn't how it was supposed to be… This isn't how it was supposed to be…” And the Ghost King top ventures into the depths of the underworld, letting a horde of ghosts devour him until his soul is scattered, all to retrieve the remnants of yours. World Five: [The Unwanted Disciple Cast Out by the Immortal Sect] You're the eldest disciple, admired by everyone in the immortal sect, noble and untainted. One day, your demonic bloodline is exposed. Your master grows distant, your former fellow disciples turn their swords against you, and your junior brother becomes the new prodigy, taking everything that was yours. Under the daily torture, your master, who has put righteousness before family, coughs up black blood in a corner you can't see after every session. The junior brother who should have killed you instead sneaks into the forbidden grounds under cover of night, takes you away, and flees with you to the ends of the earth. … Zhong Su, jolting upright on his deathbed: “Wasn't I supposed to get the bad ending while they got the happy ending?” As Zhong Su prepares to enter the next world, deep in the data ocean of the Space-Time Bureau, a certain being opens its eyes and looks toward him. Theme: Finding a way to survive in desperate circumstances and striving without giving up